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The mobile version of Tuenti was the theme of the conversation on Tuesday in Seville with the friends of Flowers in Space. It was Bernardo Hernandez himself who talked to us about it and we immediately turned to our mobiles to try it out.

The first thing that draws your attention the moment you enter m.tuenti.com is that it asks you what you are doing at the moment, which means we are talking of microblogging or a Twitter within Tuenti.

If you continue surfing, you see that you have access to your profile, to see your list of contacts and to the messages in your inbox. Clicking on the profile of your contacts, you can see the photos they have uploaded, and as Javi Hernandez puts it, this could be a danger for the productivity in classrooms because of students browsing photos on their mobiles.

Another topic that I find very interesting is the phone list, from which you can access those contacts who have entered their mobile phone number in their profile information, so now there could be people who have their phone list in Tuenti.

I would like to know if, with the launch of the mobile version of Tuenti, there would be an increase in flat-rate contracts for internet connection on the mobile. I have the impression that with time, many young people would want to go for a flat rate to avoid seeing their mobile phone bill shoot up with the use of m.tuenti.com

Since some time now I had the desire to see new things developed for ‘themselves’ by the people at The Cocktail as they did with La Coctelera.

Alberto Knapp has been commenting since long on his twitter that he is very much interested in mobile applications, and apart from that is supporting specific events for developers of these applications and also collaborating with the Open Movilforum platform.

This interest has manifested itself with the launch of Tvienes, which Alberto has just announced. The application has been developed by the team of The Cocktail based on API’s available in Open Movilforum and it basically serves the purpose of meeting up with a group of friends via messages to the mobile or email.

As I so much like the applications developed at The Cocktail, I threw myself in to try it out. I loved the registration process, everything is explained to perfection and the process to create an event and invite people is also very well executed, not as much as the registration process though, but it shows that the work has been done by experts in usability.

The structure, design and functioning of the web reminds us of Twitter, which made me think as soon as I started using it that apart from being able to send invitations to events via mobile or email, it should also allow the same function in Twitter.

After trying it out, I thought that one thing that could be added is that the message sent to the mobile includes some information regarding the event. As it is right now, you only receive the name of the event and a web address to enter and see the rest of the information.

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Update: I forgot to mention that Alberto Knapp will be in the next Iniciador to talk about product development.

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Hipoqih is one of the projects that was presented in Startup 2.0 and it seemed that the name could be a drawback for the project to be successful. Its creators have decided to modify the name a bit mostly to make it a little easier for English speakers to pronounce it.

Hipoqih is now Ipoki, has a new logo, new design and the appearance of a social network, although its main function has not changed, which is to know the location of a person on a map through his/her mobile phone. We could say that Ipoki is like a twitter where instead of replying what you are doing, you say where you are. More than for the purpose of entertainment, this application is more useful to locate the elderly, dependant or the disabled, to locate employees of a company, …

As the basis for locating people on Ipoki is the mobile phone with GPS, the developmental work being carried out at this point is centered around making the application work on iPhone, the Blackberries and mobiles with Android.

Other aspects in which the team of Ipoki is working are integration with other applications like Flickr, Google Earth, Netvibes and iGoogle.

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Fernando del Pozo and Daniel Primo just presented Go to android.

A developers community of Google Android, Go to android has been developed using Drupal and is for now available only in English. The development of applications for mobile devices is the ‘in’ thing these days, and as you can see, with a great future ahead.

I like seeing how avid readers of this blog take the plunge in an adventure of this type, mostly for the future prospects that this community can have and the directory of applications for Android that already has, for example, TwitterDroid available for download.

If you are a developer of applications for mobiles and you are thinking of creating something for Andoid, I recommend you to participate in Go to android.

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